International Conference “Musical Iconography from the Middle Ages till the Time of Romanticism”

29 мая 2013 г. - 30 мая 2013 г. | Conferences

International Scientific and Practical Conference “Musical Iconography from the Middle Ages till the Time of Romanticism”

Within the Program of Germany’s and the Netherlands’ Year in Russia

29–30 May 2013

Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory

Scientific and Research Center for the Music History Methodology
of the Western European Music History Division


Dear colleagues!

We are happy to invite you to participate in the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Musical Iconography from the Middle Ages till the Time of Romanticism” to be held within the Program of Germany’s and the Netherlands’ Year in Russia. The conference will be held on 29–30 May 2013 within the frameworks of the Third International Music and Dance Festival La Renaissance.


The Conference Program

29 May, Wednesday

12:00

The Opening Ceremony

  • Prof. Konstantin Zenkin, D.A., Deputy Rector for Scientific Affairs of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory
    The Welcome Speech
  • Prof. Mikhail Saponov, D.A., Head of the Western European Music History Division of the Music History and Theory Department of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory
    The Welcome Speech

First Session

Moderator: Prof. Mikhail Saponov, D.A.

  • 12:30
    Mr. Kirill Posternak, the Section Head of the Shchusev State Scientific and Research Museum of Architecture
    The Choir Gallery within the Space of the Seventeenth-eighteenth-century Russian Cathedral
  • 13:00
    Mr. Daniil Ryabchikov
    , Artistic Director of the Early Music Ensembles Universalia in Re, Labyrinthus, Grocheio and Ensenhas
    The Thirteenth-century Stringed Instrument Ensembles: Reconstruction Based on the Iconography of the Time
  • 13:30
    Ms. Yulia Litvinova, Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory
    Iconography of the Theater of Antiquity in the Context of Theater and Theatrical Shows of the Time of Renaissance

  • 14:00
    Asst. Prof. Margarita Grigor'yeva, Ph.D., the Serebryakov Volgograd Institute of Arts
    The Printmaking in the Music Sheets of Carlo Gesualdo

14:30–15:30
Intermission

Second Session

Moderator: Prof. Mikhail Saponov, D.A.

  • 15:30
    Dr. Yekaterina Dmitriyeva, Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory
    Harpsichords of the Ruckers Family and Household Music of the Netherlands
     
  • 16:00
    Asst. Prof. Tatiana Zenaishvili, Ph.D., Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory
    The Secrets of “Correct” Performance and Some Mysterious Details of the Keyboard
     
  • 16:30
    Dr. Natalia Katonova, Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory, Artistic Director of the Orchestra of the State Hermitage
    Comments on the Sources of the Keyboard Duo as the Genre with a Barely Distinguishable Contour
     
  • 17:00
    Asst. Prof. Irina Viskova, Ph.D., Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory
    Jeremy Montagu about the Musical Instruments on Pictures of the Seventeenth-eighteenth-century European Painters

30 May, Thursday

Third Session

Moderator: Dr. Margarita Yesipova

  • 12:00
    Ms. Darya Vorob'yova, a post-graduate student at the State Institute for Art Studies, a research fellow at the Moscow Contemporary Art Museum
    The Images of Musicians in the Sculptures of the Temples of India during the Time of Early Middle Ages
     
  • 12:30
    Dr. Margarita Yesipova, a leading research fellow at Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory
    The Lutes of Saraswati’s, the Goddess of Arts, in the Buddhist and Hindu Iconography during the Time of Middle Ages
     
  • 13:00
    Asst. Prof. Anna Alyab'yeva, D.A., the Krasnodar State University of Culture and Arts
    Musical Instruments in Bali as the “Icon of the Style”
     
  • 13:30
    Prof. Violetta Yunusova, D.A., a leading research fellow at Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory
    Classical Musical Instruments of the Middle East in Iconographic Monuments
     
  • 14:00
    Asst. Prof. Tatiana Sergheyeva, D.A., the Volga Federal University in Kazan
    The History of Chordophones in Spain in the Iconography of Muslim and Christian Monuments

The Conference Topics:

  • the iconography of musical instruments from the Middle Ages till the 18th century; facts and fictions about the musical instruments in the hands of mythological characters, gods and angels;
  • the importance of visual art materials of the past in today’s performance; the reflection of specificities of the ensemble music-making in ancient paintings and graphic arts
  • the scenography and set design: from mysteries and popular shows to musical theater
  • the suit of a musician; minstrels and court musicians, as well as singers and instrumentalists in the Baroque opera;
  • illustrations in ancient treatises: Boethius, Tinctoris, Virdung, Ganassi, Agricola, Pretorius and others;
  • illuminations in books and engravings in musical collections, graphic design of musical texts (Cantigas de Santa Maria by Alfonso X de Castilla, the Code of Chantilly, the Code of Manesse, collections of pieces for harpsichord and virginal);
  • the look of musical instruments as part of the composition of a picture, as well as within the space of architecture and the space of music-making; the sounding and aesthetical functions of details of the look of musical instruments, such as: decorations of the lute and guitar fingerboards and the brass instrument bells, paintings on the keyboard instrument bodies, instruments made in the forms of animals, the organ within the context of the cathedral architecture.

The speech limit is twenty minutes.